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Reintroduce the ability to generate device metadata reports on DI, restoring the functionality that was available in version 8.0 NMS.

Metadata is extensively used to automate and organize administrative activities within SevOne. Without a native reporting tool in current versions, teams lose critical visibility. Restoring this feature allows administrators to quickly audit, filt...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Needs more information

Remove Service-Level Anomalies when Segment Level Anomaly is detected

Prior to nine months ago the Anomaly feature removed Service Level anomalies when a Segment Level anomaly was detected at the same service, account, date and usage type. The cost delta observed in the duplicates is either nil or within a few dolla...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 2 Submitted

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Add Kubernetes Worker Node Mapping to Container Reports

Currently, Container Resize reports provide information such as: Namespace Deployment / Workload Resource requests and limits Resize recommendations However, there is no way to include the Kubernetes Worker Node on which the workload is currently ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow cost sharing of transactions up to 3 years back, within "Cost Sharing & Telemetry"

Hello, Within "Cost Sharing & Telemetry", we need to be able to share costs that occurred three (3) years ago. Our internal accounting requires specific rules dividing these costs for each yearly accounting period. For example, our goal is acc...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Have both the hostname and IP address be visible in Concert's inventory screen for use with WebSphere Assessment.

Have both the hostname and IP address be visible in Concert's inventory screen for use with WebSphere Assessment. At this time, the  defaultHostname value can be configured in server.xml. With this approach, there is no need for the hostname ...
about 1 month ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Include the capability to hide or customize the naming of KPIs in the IT Planning expenses tab.

This would be useful, as several of my clients have requested this functionality because they do not plan exactly in the OOB template intended process by IT Planning. It would be helpful and less confusing if users could hide the CapEx KPI when th...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Enable Cloudability to ingest and leverage additional Azure datasets, including Azure Price Book data.

Securitas requires additional Azure datasets to be available natively within Cloudability, such as Azure Price Book data. Currently, this requirement is being addressed through a workaround using a Business Metric (BMetric) to bring the relevant p...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Needs more information